Prescott Deininger, PhD

Prescott Deininger is a molecular geneticist with a focus on genetic instability of the human genome in cancer. His work focuses primarily on mobile elements in the human genome and how they serve as risk factors for increased genetic instability. Dr. Deininger has served on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the NIEHS National Toxicology Program and the National Academies Committee for Disaster Resilience in the Biomedical Research Enterprise. He is an executive editor for Analytical Biochemistry and serves on numerous journal editorial boards. Dr. Deininger serves as Associate Director for Basic Science of both the Tulane Cancer Center and the Louisiana Cancer Research Center. Additionally, he holds the Joe W. & Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Chair in Oncology.